Originally Posted by
johnso29
I'm seriously doubting his Average Starting pay. I don't know of ANY Regional CA that STARTS @ $72,000. He's full of it.
He was testifying about the average CA pay, not starting pay (CA's start as FO's 99.9% of the time, so . . .). He was
asked to give starting pay, which he danced around, of course - and then got his 'we-we' smacked by a Senator.
He did the same thing when he testified about the average regional CA having 8500TT, average FO has 3000TT (seems WAY high to me, but . . .) We all know that's b/c the only CA's left @ the regionals now are 'lifers' (most of the 4K-6K guys are @ the bottom of mainline and cargo lists), and the FO's can't move up to CA b/c there's no growth today. What was it 2 years ago when most of the FO's were hired and the CA's were upgrading?
Total gross distortion of the issues, but that's what Cohen is paid to do, mislead and deceive.